Are Brighton Gritter Lorries Made of the Right Stuff?

With bad snow expected, Brighton and Hove gritter lorries are having to use table salt to cope with the mass gritting needed over the coming weeks.

It has been revealed that Brighton and Hove are now insufficiently stocked with grit after they sold surplus supplies during the summer. The plan was to sell the grit so that East Sussex could spend more money improving children’s sand pits by removing almost all of the dog feces and toe nail clippings left by homeless people.

The move has now backfired as the remaining grit will only cover the Brighton roads once over the expected cold weather period.

Neil Shire from Tactical Weather Prevention Unit has said:

“We have two options, either we gamble on one day where we are most likely to have snow. Or, we combine our current grit with table salt which should give us enough to cover the amount needed for the next week or so. We have gone with the latter.”

He added:

“Fortunately, Morrisons has a deal on table salt at the moment so we are able to budget very effectively.”

Whether the compound formation of grit and salt will actually be effective remains to be seen. Advice to Brighton and Hove residents is to not fall over as it will only rub salt into the wound.